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How to buy Five Star Senior Living stock
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Five Star Senior Living Inc is a medical care facilities business based in the US. Five Star Senior Living shares (FVE) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Five Star Senior Living employs 12,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$221.9 million.
How to buy shares in Five Star Senior Living
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- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Five Star Senior Living. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: FVE. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Five Star Senior Living reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Five Star Senior Living, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Five Star Senior Living. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
What's in this guide?
- FVE shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is FVE stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short FVE shares?
- Are FVE shares over-valued?
- Five Star Senior Living's financials
- How volatile are FVE shares?
- Does Five Star Senior Living pay a dividend?
- Have FVE shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Five Star Senior Living share price
Use our graph to track the performance of FVE stocks over time.Five Star Senior Living shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-04-08.
| 52-week range | USD$2.945 - USD$9.25 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | USD$6.7534 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$6.4009 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$8.5 |
| PE ratio | 38.6726 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.226 |
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Is Five Star Senior Living under- or over-valued?
Valuing Five Star Senior Living stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Five Star Senior Living's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Five Star Senior Living's P/E ratio
Five Star Senior Living's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 39x. In other words, Five Star Senior Living shares trade at around 39x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Five Star Senior Living's EBITDA
Five Star Senior Living's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$27.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Five Star Senior Living's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Five Star Senior Living financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$221.9 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 7.4% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$115.6 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.57% |
| Return on equity TTM | -4.59% |
| Profit margin | -3.42% |
| Book value | $6.646 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$201.5 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Five Star Senior Living shares
There are currently 430,550 Five Star Senior Living shares held short by investors – that's known as Five Star Senior Living's "short interest". This figure is 23.7% up from 348,067 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Five Star Senior Living shares can be evaluated.
Five Star Senior Living's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Five Star Senior Living's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Five Star Senior Living shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Five Star Senior Living shares traded daily (recently around 206004.784689). Five Star Senior Living's SIR currently stands at 2.09. In other words for every 100,000 Five Star Senior Living shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2090 shares are currently held short.
However Five Star Senior Living's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Five Star Senior Living shares, or, against the total number of tradable Five Star Senior Living shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Five Star Senior Living's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Five Star Senior Living shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0228% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Five Star Senior Living shares, roughly 23 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Five Star Senior Living.
Find out more about how you can short Five Star Senior Living stock.
Five Star Senior Living share dividends
We're not expecting Five Star Senior Living to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Five Star Senior Living's shares ever split?
Five Star Senior Living's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 30 September 2019. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Five Star Senior Living shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Five Star Senior Living shares which in turn could have impacted Five Star Senior Living's share price.
Five Star Senior Living share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Five Star Senior Living's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.945 up to $9.25. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Five Star Senior Living's is 0.9989. This would suggest that Five Star Senior Living's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Five Star Senior Living overview
Five Star Senior Living Inc. operates and manages senior living communities in the United States. It operates through Senior Living, and Rehabilitation and Wellness segments. Its senior living communities comprise independent living communities, assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and an active adult community. The company offers nursing and healthcare services; and rehabilitation and wellness services. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 268 senior living communities consisting of 29,271 living units comprising 243 primarily independent and assisted living communities with 28,316 living units, and 9 SNFs with 955 living units located in 31 states. The company was formerly known as Five Star Quality Care, Inc. and changed its name to Five Star Senior Living Inc. in March 2017. Five Star Senior Living Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.
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